Narrowly elected in 1984, he was solidly re-elected in 1986 in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's “firestorm” that swept through the region, giving Democrats unprecedented control of southwestern Minnesota for the next several election cycles.
[1] While in the legislature, Brown was a member of the House Agriculture, Appropriations, Capital Investment, Education, General Legislation & Veterans Affairs, Judiciary, Labor-Management Relations, Local Government & Metropolitan Affairs, Taxes, Transportation, and Ways & Means committees, and of various sub-committees relevant to each area.
He chaired the Local Government & Metropolitan Affairs Committee during the 1993-94 Session.
After leaving the legislature in 1997, he became a contract lobbyist for several groups,[2] including the Tubman Family Alliance.
Through his work for the Domestic Violence Legislative Alliance, he represented the interests of Tubman and numerous other service providers across Minnesota.